Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod